ON A BOX
CONTAINING
HIS OWN WORKS
I break up cypress and make a book-box;
The box well-made,--and the cypress-wood tough.
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So, in the year, my favourite season is the last slow part of summer that just
precedes
autumn, and, in the day, the hour when I walk is when the sun hesitates before vanishing, with rays of yellow bronze over the grey walls, and rays of red copper over the tiles.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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'81 These':
the gnomes who urge the vain
beauties
to disdain all offers of love and
play the part of prudes.
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Alexander Pope |
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She told her
husband of the debt, but he refused
outright
to pay it.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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v
The
Universal
Man.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Some of Poushkin's writings
having drawn
suspicion
on him he was banished to a distant part of the
Empire, where he filled sundry administrative posts.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The band sat down,
and watched on the water worm-like things,
sea-dragons strange that sounded the deep,
and nicors that lay on the ledge of the ness --
such as oft essay at hour of morn
on the road-of-sails their
ruthless
quest, --
and sea-snakes and monsters.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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60
Fust come the
blackbirds
clatt'rin' in tall trees,
An' settlin' things in windy Congresses,--
Queer politicians, though, for I'll be skinned
Ef all on 'em don't head aginst the wind,
'fore long the trees begin to show belief,--
The maple crimsons to a coral-reef.
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237 Milton has emulated this passage, in describing the couch of our
first parents:--
"Underneath the violet,
Crocus, and
hyacinth
with rich inlay,
'Broider'd the ground.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Ye silent shades, whose each tree here
Some relique of a saint doth wear,
Who, for some sweetheart's sake, did prove
The fire and
martyrdom
of love:
Here is the legend of those saints
That died for love, and their complaints:
Their wounded hearts and names we find
Encarv'd upon the leaves and rind.
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Robert Herrick |
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For an impalpable aura, mixed with heat,
Deserts the dying, and heat draws off the air;
And heat there's none, unless commixed with air:
For, since the nature of all heat is rare,
Athrough
it many seeds of air must move.
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Lucretius |
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Many of the above
examples
are very bald renderings of the original, and
are only quoted here to show that Chaucer did not make his translation
from the French.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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ere holy seintz & gode,
Martirs,
virgines
mylde of mode,
And ?
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Ramsden, dated June 10, 1678— "There
came out about Christmas last, here, a large book
concerning the growth of Popery and
Arbitrary
Government.
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Marvell - Poems |
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[Illustration]
There was a Young Lady of Turkey,
Who wept when the weather was murky;
When the day turned out fine, she ceased to repine,
That
capricious
Young Lady of Turkey.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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I think she would dismay you, and unhitch
The sinews from their
purchase
on your bones,
And have you spelled as a wizard spells his ghosts.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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DREAMING OF A DEAD LADY
"I heard at night your long sighs
And knew that you were
thinking
of me.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The wagons
quickened
on the streets,
The thunder hurried slow;
The lightning showed a yellow beak,
And then a livid claw.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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2279, is probably
conventional
for "a long time," like hund missēra, l.
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Beowulf |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Sinuous southward and sinuous
northward
the shimmering band
Of the sand-beach fastens the fringe of the marsh to the folds of the land.
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Sidney Lanier |
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What thing should I say to thee
To pierce the pride of lust
wrapping
thy heart?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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I grant that his works show
unparalleled talent and originality, but not one in ten
contains
any
moral reflection or deeper meaning.
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Li Po |
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_9th
November
1833_.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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of person
indirectly
affected, = advantage.
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Beowulf |
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CXIV
Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you,
Drink up the monarch's plague, this
flattery?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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They tolled the one bell only,
Groom there was none to see,
The mourners
followed
after,
And so to church went she,
And would not wait for me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Note: The Scythians at the extreme end of the Empire in Roman times were regarded as living
barbaric
lives (See Ovid's Tristia and Ex Ponto).
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Ronsard |
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I have reproached this prince by letter
with his
shameful
flight from our country.
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Petrarch |
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In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear:
How the chimney-sweeper's cry
Every
blackening
church appals,
And the hapless soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down palace-walls.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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tis a syghte of myckle woe, 15
To kenne these
Normannes
everich rennome gayne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The
invisible
worm,
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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org (Images
generously
made
available by the Internet Archive)
Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Rilke - Poems |
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" said Pugatchef, without
deigning
to throw me a look.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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When the whole host of hatred stood hard by,
To watch and mock thee shrinking, thou hast smiled
With a sedate and all-enduring eye;
When Fortune fled her spoiled and
favourite
child,
He stood unbowed beneath the ills upon him piled.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The flames of the Dog Days keep
Far from your green steep,
Because your shade around
Is always close and deep,
For the
shepherds
changing ground,
The weary oxen, the sheep,
And the cattle that wander round.
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Ronsard |
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I am thy father, for whose sake thou lead'st
A life of woe, by
violence
oppress'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Green monkeys cry in
Sanskrit
to their souls
From lofty bamboo trees of hot Madras.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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GD}
Astonishd sat her Sisters of Beulah to see her soft affections
To Enion & her
children
& they ponderd these things wondring
And they Alternate kept watch over the Youthful terrors
They saw not yet the Hand Divine for it was not yet reveald
But they went on in Silent Hope & Feminine repose
But Los & Enitharmon delighted in the Moony spaces of Eno *
Nine Times they livd among the forests, feeding on sweet fruits
And nine bright Spaces wanderd weaving mazes of delight
Snaring the wild Goats for their milk they eat the flesh of Lambs
A male & female naked & ruddy as the pride of summer
Alternate Love & Hate his breast; hers Scorn & Jealousy
In embryon passions.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Of sea-captains young or old, and the mates, and of all intrepid sailors,
Of the few, very choice, taciturn, whom fate can never
surprise
nor
death dismay.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
Two early night-winged butterflies together
Be-chase themselves from halm to halm in jest,
The balk
prepares
from out the shrubs and weather,
The balm of evening for the soul distressed.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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]
[Sidenote H: Our
agreement
stipulates only one stroke.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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ne
resou{n}
ne take?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Some light and
graceful
hanging shelves, with golden edges and crimson
silk cords with gold tassels, sustain two or three hundred magnificently
bound books.
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Poe - 5 |
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THEY SAY--
They say I have a constant heart, who know
Not
anything
of how it turns and yields
First here, first there; nor how in separate fields
It runs to reap and then remains to sow;
How, with quick worship, it will bend and glow
Before a line of song, an antique vase,
Evening at sea; or in a well-loved face
Seek and find all that Beauty can bestow.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I have read hardly any books this summer but
Cervantes
and
Boccaccio and some Greek plays.
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Yeats |
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His company, during the season of balls and festivities,
continued
to
be courted by all who desired to be reckoned gay or polite.
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Robert Burns |
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No wonder they are
prompted
to grow
thorns at last, to defend themselves against such foes.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Two
phantasms
of two men!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Something
o' that, I said.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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In love with Vanity, oh, doubly blind
Are they that final consolation find
In things that fleet on dissolution's wing,
Or dance away upon the
transient
ring
Of seasons, as they roll.
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Petrarch |
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ego nunc deum
ministra
et Cybeles famula ferar?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I find the meaning of their gentle look
More
difficult
than any learned book.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Yet for Love's shame and sweet humility,
She dared not meet him with their
queenlike
grace.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Et mon coeur s'effraya d'envier maint pauvre homme
Courant avec ferveur a l'abime beant,
Et qui, soul de son sang,
prefererait
en somme
La douleur a la mort et l'enfer au neant!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And shall I be
the author of such tidings to him; such heavy tidings in the midst of
congratulations and happy accounts from every
province
in the Empire?
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Tacitus |
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I'd just dropt asleep when I dreamed Robin spoke,
And the
casement
it gave such a shake,
As if every pane in the window was broke;
Such a patter the gravel did make.
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John Clare |
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Resemblance
none
In figure or in lineaments I bear
To the immortal tenants of the skies, 260
But to the sons of earth; if ye have known
A man afflicted with a weight of woe
Peculiar, let me be with him compared;
Woes even passing his could I relate,
And all inflicted on me by the Gods.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
la la
To
Carthage
then I came
Burning burning burning burning
O Lord Thou pluckest me out
O Lord Thou pluckest me out 310
IV.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Know, that if Zeus worries me again, I
shall go at the head of my eagles, who are armed with lightning, and
reduce his
dwelling
and that of Amphion to cinders.
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Aristophanes |
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From air the creeping
centuries
drew
The matted thicket low and wide,
This must the leaves of ages strew
The granite slab to clothe and hide,
Ere wheat can wave its golden pride.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Unguided hence my trembling steps I bend,
Far hence, before yon
hovering
deaths descend;
Lest the ripe harvest of revenge begun,
I share the doom ye suitors cannot shun.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"
His speech thus ended short, he
frowning
rose,
And twenty chiefs renowned for valour chose;
Down to the strand he speeds with haughty strides,
Where anchor'd in the bay the vessel rides,
Replete with mail and military store,
In all her tackle trim to quit the shore.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Strikes not on his eye
The blessed
daylight?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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those
uncertainty
divides:
By passions?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The Sirens
Odysseus
and the Sirens
'Odysseus and the Sirens'
Johannes Glauber, Gerard de Lairesse, 1656 - 1726, The Rijksmuseun
Do I know where your ennui's from, Sirens,
When you grieve so widely under the stars?
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Appoloinaire |
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_
THE HARP
One
musician
is sure,
His wisdom will not fail,
He has not tasted wine impure,
Nor bent to passion frail.
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Emerson - Poems |
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He laughed
at this, and said simply:--"You are
perfectly
right.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Silently shining with a fire sublime,
They said, "O friendly lights, which long have been
Mirrors to us where gladly we were seen,
Heaven waits for you, as ye shall know in time;
Who bound us to the earth
dissolves
our bond,
But wills in your despite that you shall live beyond.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And Dadaces no longer leads his troop,
But, smitten by the spear, from off the prow
Hath lightly leaped to death; and Tenagon,
In true descent a
Bactrian
nobly born,
Drifts by the sea-lashed reefs of Salamis,
The isle of Ajax.
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Aeschylus |
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If the
government
of the Republic picked him saying,
"You are wanted, your country takes you"--
if the Republic put a stethoscope to his heart
and looked at his teeth and tested his eyes and said,
"You are a citizen of the Republic and a sound
animal in all parts and functions--the Republic takes you"--
then to-day the baskets of flowers are all for the Republic,
the roses, the songs, the steamboat whistles,
the proclamations of the honorable orators--
they are all for the Republic.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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We would prefer to send you this
information
by email.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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ere moo,
And thankyd god In trinite,
That theye myght his
seruaunte
see.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Then, methought, the air grew denser,
perfumed
from an unseen censer
Swung by Angels whose faint foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Thou felle in
mischeef
thilke day,
Whan thou didest, the sothe to say,
Obeysaunce and eek homage; 4645
Thou wroughtest no-thing as the sage.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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For I wol never
dispeired
be.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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age caede terga cauda, tua uerbera patere,
face cuncta
mugienti
fremitu loca retonent,
rutilam ferox torosa ceruice quate iubam.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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not now the past, it rather needs
Of her my lovely and inveterate foe
The present power to show,
Though such she be all
language
as exceeds.
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Petrarch |
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And through the
solitudes
remote and strange
The golden gloss of eve, from tree to tree,
Descends, amid the yellow, flamingly,
Then darksome mists o'er darksome bushes range.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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That, in my friend's defence, has Ajax spread,
While his strong lance around him heaps the dead:
The gallant chief defends Menoetius' son,
And does what his
Achilles
should have done.
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Difficult
is it, alas, to conceal the shame of a monarch;
Hide it can neither his crown, nor a tight Phrygian cap:
Midas has asses ears!
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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outen strijf,
Rome forto gouerne; 954
we
defenden
holy chirche
A?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Are springs the common
springs?
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O ye mistook, ye should have snatcht his wand
And bound him fast; without his rod revers't,
And backward mutters of dissevering power,
We cannot free the Lady that sits here
In stony fetters fixt, and motionless;
Yet stay, be not disturb'd, now I bethink me 820
Som other means I have which may he us'd
Which once of Meliboeus old I learnt
The soothest
Shepherd
that ere pip't on plains.
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I thirst for Thee, full fount and flood;
My heart calls Thine, as deep to deep:
Dost Thou forget Thy sweat and pain,
They
provocation
on the Cross?
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What is your
tidings?
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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650
To
disentangle
that confusing problem, too
My sister would have handed you the fatal clew.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Point for them the virtue of the slaughter,
Make plain to them the
excellence
of killing
And a field where a thousand corpses
lie.
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Stephen Crane |
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James had
appeared
on a gray horse at the head
of the Castilian adventurers.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I cannot all rehearse, nor even name,
(Omitting none) the conflicts and exploits
Of brave Ulysses; but with what address
Successful, one
atchievement
he perform'd
At Ilium, where Achaia's sons endured
Such hardship, will I speak.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
At the third round, the ark of old renown
Swept forward, still the
trumpets
sounding loud,
And then the troops with ensigns waving proud.
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Hugo - Poems |
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